ISLAMABAD : Abu Dhabi Ports signed 50-year concession deal with Karachi Port Trust in June for handling port terminal. Joint venture will see investment of $220 million in Pakistan over first 10 years, the
ANTWERP : The first trial run with the maximum permitted draught on the Western Scheldt at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges was completed successfully with MSC Tessa entering the Belgian port with a draft of
MADRID/ABU DHABI : AD Ports Group, one of the world’s premier facilitators of logistics, industry, and trade, announces that Noatum, which now leads its Logistics Cluster operations, has signed the agreement for the acquisition
LONDON : Aiming to optimise and improve their network, several container lines have announced changes in their European services. First of all, CMA CGM has decided to revise its GTL service again. According to
BEIJING : Container volume at China ports rose by 4.8% in the January-August period, compared to the same months last year. The container throughput of Chinese ports was 203.7 million TEUs, while for the
CHITTAGONG : A barge having 12 TEUs of loaded containers onboard sunk near Chittagong port in Bangladesh on Thursday (28 September) night. The port authority, in a notice issued to mariners on Friday morning,
CHITTAGONG : In order to increase the Myanmar-Bangladesh bilateral trades, the plan to run a coastal shipping line from Rakhine State’s capital city Sittwe to Bangladesh’s Port city Chittagong was taken, but even after
KUWAIT : SAFEEN Group, part of AD Ports Group, has celebrated the arrival of the Ro-Ro cargo ship SSF Ania at Shuwaikh Port in Kuwait following the launch of a new Ro-Ro service aiming
TAIWAN : Wan Hai Lines will spend TW$4 billion (US$155 million) on refurbishing three piers of Kaohsiung Port’s Terminal No. 5, which it has taken over from compatriot Evergreen Marine Corporation. The amount is
PENANG : International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), a non-governmental organization (NGO) headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, announced that Penang Port Sdn Bhd has become a regular member of the IAPH. IAPH has evolved into a